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The new result opens the door to other preventive strategies
Lacunar strokes are small strokes that occur in deeper brain structures and, generally, they cause no symptoms. Although they may go unnoticed, these disorders do have consequences, and that its development has been associated with cognitive and start of dementia. An Australian research has shown that hypertension is a major risk factor for its appearance, thus opening the door to preventive strategies.
The authors of this paper, published in the journal Neurology, they wanted to analyze the prevalence of such strokes common in elderly people, and the various factors that may contribute to its onset. To do this, followed up for four years to a sample of 477 people aged between 60 and 64 years.
At the beginning of the investigation, and other general medical evaluations, each participant underwent an MRI, an imaging technique that can detect the disorder. At that time, a total of 37 patients, 7.8% of the sample-had little damage to his brain caused by a lacunar stroke.
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